Can Calvert-Lewin target Vardy's record hot streak? | OneFootball

Dominic Calvert-Lewin could join an exclusive Premier League club on New Year’s Day, with the Leeds striker aiming to become just the 15th player to score in seven consecutive matches when his side face Liverpool at Anfield. The run has drawn comparisons with record-holder Jamie Vardy.

Calvert-Lewin has found the net in each of his last six league outings, scoring against Leeds, Chelsea, Liverpool, Brentford, Crystal Palace (twice) and Sunderland.

That sequence follows a slow start to life at the club, with the forward managing only one goal in his opening 10 Premier League appearances after arriving on a free transfer from Everton in the summer.

Only 14 players have previously scored in seven or more Premier League games in a row, with both Vardy and former Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy achieving the feat twice.

Vardy holds the outright record, having scored in 11 successive matches for Leicester City during the 2015-16 season, when he surpassed Van Nistelrooy’s long-standing mark.

Both players have also recorded separate runs of eight consecutive games, with Vardy doing so again in 2019-20 and Van Nistelrooy in 2001-02.

Among the other names on the list are Liverpool’s recent signing Alexander Isak, who scored in eight straight games for Newcastle last season, Manchester City’s Erling Haaland, who managed seven in 2022-23, and Newcastle midfielder Joe Willock, who surprisingly hit seven in 2021-22.

Willock, Vardy, Daniel Sturridge, Alan Shearer, Ian Wright and Mark Stein are the other English players to have achieved the milestone Calvert-Lewin will be targeting when Leeds travel to Merseyside on Thursday.

Longest Premier League scoring streaks